Vulcan Facts for Kids

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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