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Updated on 1:10 AM 2/12/2026

Notes:

  1. Almost all of this information is typed in from PDF documents that I got form the Internet Archive. Many of the Internet Archive documents are "human readable" but do not Optical Character Rcoginaable (OCR) very well. The reason for not using OCR include poor contrast, dirt and poor photography. Some of the infomration is on the page curl near the book's spine and may be read by a human, but not by a computer.

  2. As time has progressed I have made an attempt to buy origina hard copies of some of the original documents by looking at what is available on EBay. Some of the EBay documents are in copyright and are not as easy to access as I want form the Internet Archive. I am only using a small set of the data form sdom 3000 page documents and thsi should qualify as "fair use" as I don't deprive a copyright holder of a sale. (Even thoug I bought a real copy that someone did pay full price for long ago.)

  3. This set of gauge/gage names is intended as a shortened Table of Contents for each file. The contents came form the full index that is associates with each gauge set.

  4. There are many semi-identical entries in each documents gauge list. This is because the same gauge may be know by many different names in its history.

  5. Each item has its Name followed by its size in KB and date/time modified. (The size and date/time fields are not always updated, but this data was correct at one time or other.)

  6. Anyone that has gotten to this pijnt will probalbly note that I am not vlery good at spelling. I also make errors in entering tables of nubers. If there is any doubt about the numbers that you may be reading, please check with the originaldocument that I copied the data from. IOn almost all cases I have provided a reference to the original document and the page number(s) that I used.

  1. (1,941 KB, 2/10/2026 8:52 AM) Bureau of Standards, Circular 31, Copper Wire Tables includes the informaion about the following Gauges:
    1. (Biitish) Standard Wire Gags
    2. A.W.G
    3. American Standard Wire Gage
    4. American Steel & Wire Company
    5. American Wire Gage (B&S)
    6. American Wire Gage
    7. Clark's
    8. Edison Standard Wire Gage
    9. Imperial Wire Gage
    10. John A. Roebling's Sons
    11. Latmier Clark's Wire Gage
    12. London Gage
    13. Metric Wire Gage
    14. millimeter wire gaqe
    15. Music Wire Gage
    16. National Electric Eight Associations's Metric Wire Gage
    17. New British Standard
    18. Old English Wire Gage (London)
    19. Old English Wire Gage
    20. Old Paris Gage
    21. Roebling Gage
    22. S.W.G
    23. Standard Wire Gage
    24. Steel Wire Gage
    25. Stubs' Steel Wire Gage (British)
    26. Stubs' Iron Wire Gage
    27. Stubs' Wire Gage

  2. (740 KB, 2/9/2026 4:49 PM) Brown & Sharpe includes the informaion about the following Gauges:
    1. American Drill Rod
    2. Birmingham Gauge
    3. English Wire Gauge
    4. Stubs' Iron Wire Gauge
    5. Stubs' Steel Wire Gauge
    6. United States Standard Gauge

  3. (497 KB, 2/10/2026 8:53 AM) Grimshaw includes the informaion about the following Gauges:
    1. American Gauge Inches
    2. Birmingham Gauge Inches
    3. Brown & Sharpe
    4. Decimal Gauge Centimeters
    5. Stubs' or Birmingham Wire gauge

  4. (936 KB, 2/10/2026 8:53 AM) Handbook of Chemistry and Physics includes the informaion about the following Gauges:
    1. American or Brown & Sharpe
    2. Birmingham or Stubs'
    3. Birmingham or Stubs' Iron Wire
    4. Imperial or British Standard
    5. Music Wire
    6. U. S. Standard Plate
    7. Washburn & Moen

  5. (552 KB, 2/10/2926 1:38 PM) Hyprodermic Needle Dimensions includes the informaion about the following Gauges:
    1. Hyprodermic Needle Sizes
    2. Stubs' Iron Wire Gauge

  6. (916 KB, 2/10/2026 8:54 AM) Kents's Mechanical Engineers' Handbook includes the informaion about the following Gauges:
    1. American Wire, B & S Gage
    2. Birmingham Wire Gauge (Stubs's Iron) Gage
    3. Old English Wire Gage
    4. Streel Wire Gage (Washburn & Moen) Gage
    5. Stubs' Steel Wire Gage
    6. U.S.Standard Sheet Gage

  7. (270 KB, 2/10/2026 1:47 PM) Mechanics's and Engineers' Pocket-Book Gauges
    1. American Gauge
    2. American Drill Rods
    3. Birmingham
    4. Birmingham Gauge
    5. Brown & Sharpe
    6. Endlish Standard Wire
    7. French Gauges
    8. Gallvanized Iron Wire
    9. Jauge de Limoges
    10. Janges de Fils de Fer
    11. John A. Roebling's Sons
    12. New Standard Wire for Great Britan, 1884
    13. Rylands Broithers
    14. Sir Joseph Whitworth & Co
    15. Soluth Staffordshire Gauge
    16. Stubs' Gauges
    17. Stubs' Iron Wire Gage
    18. Stube' Steel Wire Gauge
    19. Vielle-Montagne
    20. Warrington

  8. (1,564 KB, 2/10/2026 1:45 PM) Mechanics Handbook Gauges
    1. 1914 Birmingham
    2. Allhof & Muller
    3. Am. Screw & Wire Co
    4. American (B&S) Wire Gage
    5. American "Russion-Iron" Gage
    6. American Wire Gage
    7. B&S
    8. Birminghan or Stubs' Iron Wire
    9. British Imperial
    10. Brown & Sharpe
    11. English Music Wire
    12. Felten & Guilleanume Gage
    13. Hyprodermic Needle
    14. Malttheissen & Hageler Zinc
    15. Music Wire Gage
    16. Piano WIre Gage
    17. Plow-steel
    18. Poehlmann Music Wire
    19. Pratt & Whitnew
    20. Roebling
    21. Roeblind and Trention Iron Co
    22. Sheet Zinc Gage
    23. Standard Gage
    24. Steel Wire Gage
    25. Stub's Iron Wire Gauge
    26. Stubs' Steel Wire Gauge
    27. Trenton Iron Co
    28. U.S. Steel Wire Gage
    29. W.N.Bruntono Music Wire3
    30. Washburn & Moen
    31. Wright Wire Co.

  9. (809 KB, 2/10/2026 8:54 AM) Mining Engineers' Handbook includes the informaion about the following Gauges:
    1. American or Brown & Sharpe Gage
    2. Birmingham or Stubs' gage
    3. Inperial Wire Gage
    4. Stubs Steel Wire Gage
    5. U. S. Stanmdard for Shelets and Plate Gage
    6. Washburn & Moen Manfacturer Company Gage

  10. (1,205 KB, 2/10/2026 8:54 AM) Sarrett includes the informaion about the following Gauges:
    1. A.W.G
    2. American
    3. American S.&W. Co. Music Wire Gage
    4. B.W.G.
    5. Brimingham
    6. Brown & Sharpe
    7. Disston Gauge
    8. English Standard Wire Gage
    9. Imperial Wire GFage
    10. New American S & W Co's Musig Wire gage
    11. Starrett English Standard AWire Gauge
    12. Stubs' Iron Wire
    13. Stubs' Ateel Wirew GFage
    14. U. S. Standard gage for Plate Iron and Steel
    15. U. S.Standard Gage foe sheet and Plate Iron gns Steel
    16. W. & M. Steel Music Wire gage
    17. Wahsburn & Moen Worchester Mass Gauge

  11. (206 KB, 2/10/2026 1:42 PM) Wire Gauge Comparison Chart
    1. American Wire Gauge
    2. AWG
    3. B & S
    4. B.S.
    5. Birmingham
    6. Birmingham Wire Gauge
    7. Brown & Sharpe
    8. BWG
    9. Dire Gauge
    10. Drill Size
    11. Dumber Drill
    12. Fraction Drill
    13. Letter Drill
    14. Sheet Metal Thickness
    15. Standard Wire Gauge
    16. Stubs' Wire Gage
    17. SWG