Transporter

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Transporter may be a reference to:

[edit] Actual

• a business or person involved in the transport of goods or people
• a molecular transporter, which moves molecules across cell membranes
• the Volkswagen Transporter, a model of van from Volkswagen
  • VW Type 2, the original rear engine Volkswagen Transporter
  • VW Eurovan, the front engine Volkswagen Transporter produced from 1990
• Transporter, an Australian band
• Transporter (album) (2004), an album self-published by Immaculate Machine

[edit] Fictional

• Stargate usages:
  • Atlantis teleporters — a technology used by the Ancients for transposing the contents of two teleporter rooms on Atlantis
  • Beaming device — a technology used by the Asgard for orbital ship to planetary surface or closer transport
  • Ring Transporter — a technology used by the Goa'uld and Tok'ra for orbital ship to planetary surface or closer transpositioning via a set of rings that pop out of the ground or ceiling to surround the subjects at both ends
  • Thor's Hammer — an automated teleportation device set up by the Asgard on one planet near the stargate to protect the planet's population from the Goa'uld.
  • Wraith transporter — a technology used by the Wraith for transporting from a planetary surface to their Dart (low-altitude raiding) ships
• The Transporter, a movie about a person transporting goods without asking questions, and its sequel Transporter 2.
• a transporter for transporting (or "beaming") persons, a fictional device from the television series Star Trek, and also used in many other works of Science fiction.
• Transporter, a huge fictional iron clad, gun ship, blockade runner, frieghter, ram mounting around fifty cannons that appeared in a fiction book.