Vulcan

Vulcan could mean:

Mythology

• Vulcan (mythology), the blacksmith god of fire and volcanoes in Roman mythology
  • Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths identified with Vulcan.

Fiction

• Vulcan (Star Trek), a race in the fictional Star Trek universe
  • Vulcan (Star Trek planet), home of the Vulcans
  • Vulcan!, a 1978 Star Trek novel by Kathleen Sky
• Vulcan (DC Comics), a character from DC Comics
• Vulcan (comic), Ipc Comic produced in England from 1975-1976
• Vulcan (Marvel Comics), a character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Black Vulcan, a fictional African American superhero on the animated series Super Friends
• Vulcan, a fictional planet featured in the Doctor Who serial The Power of the Daleks
• Vulcan Raven, a character in Metal Gear Solid

Places

• Vulcan, Alberta, Canada
  • Vulcan Airport
• Vulcan, Romania, in Hunedoara County in the Jiu Valley
• Vulcan, Braşov, also in Romania in Braşov County
• Vulcan, Michigan, United States
• Vulcan, Missouri, United States
• Vulcan (volcano), a volcano in Papua New Guinea
• Vulcano, a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea

Companies

• Vulcanair, an Italian based manufacturer of light twin-engined aircraft that took over Partenavia
• Vulcan (cars), a Southport, England based car manufacturer
• Vulcan Corporation, a materials manufacturing company in Clarksville, Tennessee
• Vulcan Foundry, a former British locomotive builder
• Vulcan Iron Works, a former United States locomotive builder
• Vulcan Materials Company, a construction materials company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama
• Vulcan Inc., an investment company formed by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen
• Stettiner Vulcan AG, a former shipyard in Hamburg, Germany
• Vulcan (shipyard) (1857–1944), the shipyard in Szczecin, Poland
• Vulcan Media, an educational software company from Poland
• Vulcan Software, a British computer game company
• Vulcan Stoves, a maker of commercial ranges, ovens, steam equipment, fryers griddles and broilers

Vehicles

• Avro Vulcan, British delta-wing subsonic bomber aircraft
• Vickers Vulcan, a single engined biplane of the 1920s
• Ford Vulcan engine, a 3.0L V6 automobile engine
• Kawasaki Vulcan, a cruiser-type motorcycle
  • Kawasaki Vulcan 400 Classic
  • Kawasaki Vulcan 800 Drifter
• M167 Vulcan, a towed short-range air defense gun
• M163 VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System), a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun
• Vulcan (1874-1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
• Vulcan (1951-1967), one of the BR 'Britannia' Class locomotives
• Vulcan Railcars are a type of railcar found in preservation in New Zealand.
• HMS Vulcan, either one of two Royal Navy ships, or a Royal Navy shore establishment at Dounreay, Scotland, dedicated to the development of nuclear power

Science

• Vulcan (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical planet between Mercury and the Sun, and Vulcanoid asteroids, hypothetical minor planets in the same place
• Vulcanization, a chemical process to improve the strength and durability of rubber
• Vulcan laser, the most intensely focused in the world, based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire.

Computing

• Vulcan processor, a type of central processing unit
• VULCAN (operating system), an operating system for some 24-bit Datacraft/Harris Corporation minicomputers
• Vulcan (programming language), a programming language, now known as dBase

Other uses

• The "Vulcans" are the nickname of California University of Pennsylvania's sports teams.
• Vulcan statue, the largest cast iron statue in the world and the symbol of Birmingham, Alabama
• Vulcan of the alchemists, the patron deity associated with Paracelsian alchemy
• Birmingham Vulcans, a 1975 World Football League team
• M61 Vulcan, a 20mm six-barreled gatling gun
• Vulcan M-11-9, a semi-automatic, closed bolt pistol manufactured by Vulcan Armament
• The Vulcans, an informal name of George W. Bush's foreign policy advisory team for the 2000 U.S. presidential election
• The Vulcan, an occasional magazine from various organizations within the Young Fine Gael, the youth wing of the Irish Fine Gael political party
• Vulcan, the title of an EP and a song by the rock band Snake River Conspiracy
• Operation Vulcan, Allied action in Tunisia during World War II

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