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Updated: 9:57 AM 4/9/2026

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 Recognizable (OCR) very well. The reason for not using OCR include poor contrast, dirt and poor photography. Some of the information 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 original 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 from some 3000 page documents and this should qualify as "fair use" as I don't deprive a copyright holder of a sale. (Even though 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 associated with each gauge set.

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

  5. Each item has its Name followed by its size in KB, date/time modified and the list of Gauges/Gages contained in the document. (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 point will probably note that I am not very good at spelling. (I now have a spell check addition to my editor, so my spelling should improve.) I also make errors in entering tables of numbers. If there is any doubt about the numbers that you may be reading, please check with the original document that I copied the data from. In almost all cases I have provided a reference to the original document and the page number(s) that I used in the original document.

  7. I have local links to the original catalogs and other data, following each entry in the following list of data. Most of the originals are quite large and load very slowly.

  1. Bureau of Standards, Circular 31, Copper Wire Tables (1,941 KB, 2/10/2026 8:52 AM, Original Document, 8,076,059 Bytes long):
    1. (British) 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 Association'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. Brown & Sharpe (740 KB, 2/9/2026 4:49 PM, Original Documents, Document 1 is 132,464,724 Bytes long, Document 2 is 73,362,061 Bytes long):
    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. Grimshaw (497 KB, 2/10/2026 8:53 AM, Original Document is 11,490,603 Bytes long):
    1. American Gauge Inches
    2. Birmingham Gauge Inches
    3. Brown & Sharpe
    4. Decimal Gauge Centimeters
    5. Stubs' or Birmingham Wire gauge

  4. Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (497 KB, 2/10/2026 8:53 AM, Original Document is 105,806,504 Bytes long):
    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. Hypodermic Needle Dimensions (552 KB, 2/10/2926 1:38 PM, Original Document is 45,887,755 Bytes long):
    1. Hypodermic Needle Sizes
    2. Stubs' Iron Wire Gauge

  6. Kent's Mechanical Engineers' Handbook (916 KB, 2/10/2026 8:54 AM, Original Document is 155,030,530 Bytes long):
    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. Mechanics's and Engineers' Pocket-Book Gauges (270 KB, 2/10/2026 1:47 PM, Original document, 108,774,618 Bytes long):
    1. American Gauge
    2. American Drill Rods
    3. Birmingham
    4. Birmingham Gauge
    5. Brown & Sharpe
    6. English Standard Wire
    7. French Gauges
    8. Galvanized Iron Wire
    9. Jauge de Limoges
    10. Janges de Fils de Fer
    11. John A. Roebling's Sons
    12. New Standard Wire for Great Britain, 1884
    13. Rylands Brothers
    14. Sir Joseph Whitworth & Co
    15. South Staffordshire Gauge
    16. Stubs' Gauges
    17. Stubs' Iron Wire Gage
    18. Stubs' Steel Wire Gauge
    19. Vielle-Montagne
    20. Warrington

  8. Mechanics Handbook Gauges (1,564 KB, 2/10/2026 1:45 PM, Original Document is 151,253,223 Bytes long):
    1. 1914 Birmingham
    2. Allhof & Muller
    3. Am. Screw & Wire Co
    4. American (B&S) Wire Gage
    5. American "Russian-Iron" Gage
    6. American Wire Gage
    7. B&S
    8. Birmingham or Stubs' Iron Wire
    9. British Imperial
    10. Brown & Sharpe
    11. English Music Wire
    12. Felten & Guilleanume Gage
    13. Hypodermic Needle
    14. Mattheissen & Hageler Zinc
    15. Music Wire Gage
    16. Piano WIre Gage
    17. Plow-steel
    18. Poehlmann Music Wire
    19. Pratt & Whitney
    20. Roebling
    21. Roebling and Trenton 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. Mining Engineers' Handbook (809 KB, 2/10/2026 8:54 AM, Original Document is 155,023,604 Bytes long):
    1. American or Brown & Sharpe Gage
    2. Birmingham or Stubs' gage
    3. Imperial Wire Gage
    4. Stubs Steel Wire Gage
    5. U. S. Standard for Sheets and Plate Gage
    6. Washburn & Moen Manufacturer Company Gage

  10. Starrett i (1,205 KB, 2/10/2026 8:54 AM, Original Documents Catalog 1 is 130,764,838 Bytes long, Catalog 2 is 10,628,739 Bytes long, Catalog 3 is 132,904,551 Bytes long):
    1. A.W.G
    2. American
    3. American S.&W. Co. Music Wire Gage
    4. B.W.G.
    5. Birmingham
    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' Steel Wire GFage
    14. U. S. Standard gage for Plate Iron and Steel
    15. U. S.Standard Gage for sheet and Plate Iron and Steel
    16. W. & M. Steel Music Wire gage
    17. Washburn & Moen Worcester Mass Gauge

  11. Wire Gauge Comparison Chart (206 KB, 2/10/2026 1:42 PM, Original Document is 54,657 Bytes long):
    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