Transporter

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Transporter may refer to:

Vehicles:

• Transporter wagon for carrying railway wagons of one gauge on another gauge
• Animal transporter, a vehicle for transporting animals
• the VW Transporter, a model of van from Volkswagen and its variants:
  • VW Type 2, the original rear engine Volkswagen Transporter
  • VW Eurovan, the front engine Volkswagen Transporter produced from 1990

In fiction:

• Teleportation devices, commonplace in science fiction
• Transporter (Star Trek), teleportation devices in the Star Trek universe
• Stargate usages:
  • Atlantis teleporters — a technology used by the Ancients for transposing the contents of two teleporter rooms on Atlantis
  • Asgard 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

Transporter may also refer to:

• Membrane transport proteins, move molecules across biological membranes
• The Transporter, a 2002 action movie starring Jason Statham, followed by two sequels
• Transporter (album), an album by Immaculate Machine

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