Vulcan

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Vulcan may refer to:

Mythology

• Vulcan (mythology), the god of fire, volcanoes, metalworking, and the forge in Roman mythology
  • Vulcan of the alchemists, the patron deity associated with Paracelsian alchemy

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Vulcan statue, the world's largest cast-iron statue and the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama
• Vulcan (EP), an EP by Snake River Conspiracy
• Vulcan, an album by Chris Wood
• Vulcan Raven, a character in the Metal Gear Solid video games

Film and television

• Vulcan (Star Trek), a fictional race in Star Trek
  • Vulcan (Star Trek planet), a fictional planet
• Black Vulcan, a fictional African American superhero on the animated series Super Friends
• Vulcan, a fictional planet in Doctor Who

Literature

• Vulcan (Fleetway), an IPC Comic produced in England in 1975-1976
• Vulcan (DC Comics)
• Vulcan (Marvel Comics)
• Vulcan!, a 1978 Star Trek novel by Kathleen Sky
• The Vulcan, a magazine from various organizations within the Young Fine Gael
• Vulcan, a gay pornography magazine, made famous in a High Court test case by serial killer Dennis Nilsen
• Vulcan, a fictional series of artificial intelligences (Vulcan 2 and 3) in Vulcan's Hammer

Organisations

• Vulcan (Turku shipyard), a former shipyard in Turku, Finland
  • Crichton-Vulcan, an abandoned shipyard in Turku, Finland
• Stettiner Vulcan AG, a former shipyard in Hamburg, Germany
• Vulcan (motor vehicles), a car and commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Southport, England
• Vulcan Corporation, a materials manufacturing company in Clarksville, Tennessee, US
• Vulcan Foundry, a former British locomotive builder, and "Vulcan village" workers cottages
• Vulcan Iron Works, any of several mechanical engineering companies in the nineteenth century in England and the United States
• Vulcan Materials Company, a construction materials company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama
• Vulcan Inc., an investment company formed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
• Vulcan Software, a British computer game company

Places

• Vulcan (volcano), a volcano in Papua New Guinea

Canada

• Vulcan, Alberta, a town
  • Vulcan Airport
  • Vulcan County, a municipal district in Alberta, Canada
  • RCAF Station Vulcan, a Commonwealth and RCAF training station, closed in April 1945

Romania

• Vulcan, Brașov, a commune in Brașov County
• Vulcan, Hunedoara, a city in Hunedoara County
• Vulcan, a village in Apold Commune, Mureș County
• Vulcan, a village in Ciuruleasa Commune, Alba County
• Blăjeni-Vulcan, a village in Blăjeni Commune, Hunedoara County
• Buceș-Vulcan, a village in Buceș Commune, Hunedoara County

United States

• Vulcan, Colorado, a ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado, location of the Mammoth Good Hope Mine, where the mineral Vulcanite was discovered
• Vulcan, Michigan
• Vulcan, Missouri
• Vulcan (inactive volcano), a dormant volcano in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Science and technology

• Vulcan (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical planet between Mercury and the Sun
  • Vulcanoid asteroid, hypothetical population of asteroids that may orbit the Sun
• Vulcan (programming language), a programming language, now known as dBase
• Vulcan laser, a laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire, England

Sports

• Vulcan changeup, a type of baseball pitch
• Auckland Vulcans, a rugby league team that plays in the NSW Cup
• Birmingham Vulcans, a 1975 World Football League team
• California Vulcans, the sports teams of California University of Pennsylvania
• The Vulcans, the University of Hawaii at Hilo's athletic teams

Vehicles

Aircraft

• Avro Vulcan, a British delta-winged, subsonic, bomber aeroplane
• Vickers Vulcan, a single-engined biplane of the 1920s

Land vehicles

• Ford Vulcan engine, an automobile engine
• Kawasaki Vulcan, a series of cruiser-type motorcycles
• NZR RM class (Vulcan), a former type of railroad car found in preservation in New Zealand
• Vulcan (1874-1892), a South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
• Vulcan (1951-1967), a BR 'Britannia' Class locomotive
• Vulcan, a British Rail Class 47 diesel locomotive no: D1676 (later 47090, 47623, 47843), used since April 1965

Space launch vehicles

• Vulcan (rocket), a rocket launch system under development by United Launch Alliance

Water vehicles

• Vulcan (barge) (1819), the world's first all iron-hulled boat
• HMS Vulcan, several ships
  • HMS Birkenhead (1845) or HMS Vulcan, an iron paddle frigate
  • HMS Vulcan (1849), an iron screw frigate
  • HMS Vulcan (1889), a depot ship
• USS Vulcan, several ships
  • USS Vulcan (1884), a schooner
  • USS Vulcan (AC-5) (1909), a collier
  • USS Vulcan (AR-5) (1941), a repair ship

Weapons

• M167 Vulcan, a towed, short-range. air-defense Gatling gun
• M61 Vulcan, a 20mm six-barreled Gatling gun
• Vulcan M-11-9, a semi-automatic, closed-bolt pistol manufactured by Vulcan Armament
• M163 VADS or Vulcan Air Defense System a self-propelled, air-defense Gatling gun

Other uses

• Vulcan (surname), a surname
• Operation Vulcan, an Allied action in Tunisia during World War II
• The Vulcan, Cardiff, a historic public house, demolished in 2012
• The Vulcans, George W. Bush's foreign policy advisory team for the 2000 U.S. election

See also

• Vulcan (comics), several meanings
• Vulcan Hotel (disambiguation)
• Volcan (disambiguation)
• Volcano (disambiguation)
• Vulcana (1875–1946), Welsh female bodybuilder
• Vulcanair, an Italian-based manufacturer of light twin-engined aircraft
• Vulcanization, a chemical process to improve the strength and durability of rubber
• Vulcanite, a rare copper telluride mineral
• Vulcano, a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea
• Vulkan (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Vulcan"
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