Information about Fulcrum

Fulcrum may refer to one of the following.
  • A fulcrum is the support or point of support on which a lever turns in raising or moving something.
  • Fulcrum Wheels, a bicycle wheel manufacturer, based in Italy (owned by Campagnolo), which manufactures wheels for Campy, Shimano, and SRAM drivetrains
  • fulcrum (drumming), part of a percussionist's grip.
  • MiG-29 Fulcrum, a Soviet fighter aircraft.
  • Fulcrum (newspaper), a student newspaper at the University of Ottawa.
  • Fulcrum (annual), a United States literary periodical, an annual of poetry and aesthetics.
  • Fulcrum Technologies was a Canadian fulltext search engine vendor who was acquired by PC Docs, who was then acquired by Hummingbird, who is now part of OpenText. http://opentext.com/
  • There are many other companies that use Fulcrum in their name, including another Fulcrum Technologies which has no relation to the search engine company.
lever (from French lever, "to raise", c.f. a levant) is a rigid object that is used with an appropriate fulcrum or pivot point to multiply the mechanical force that can be applied to another object.
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Fulcrum Wheels is a wholly owned company of Campagnolo that produces road bicycle wheelsets compatible with Campagnolo, Shimano and Sram drivetrains.

Fulcrum wheels were created for road racing but the real novelty in 2008 will be Fulcrum off-road wheels, suitable for the
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Fulcrum is a drumming term.

Traditionally, the fulcrum is said to denote the part of a percussionist's grip that is the main lever for the drumstick/mallet to rotate.
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Type Multirole fighter
Manufacturer Mikoyan
Maiden flight 6 October 1977
Introduced August 1983
Status In service
Primary users Russian Air Force
Ukrainian Air Force
Indian Air Force
Produced 1984-present

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The Fulcrum is the English language student paper at the University of Ottawa.

The paper dates back to 1942, when the University's English Debating Society began publishing its newsletter.
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Fulcrum, An annual of poetry and aesthetics is a United States literary periodical that has been published since 2002. It is edited by Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich.
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