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 form 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 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 point will probably note that I am not vlery good at spelling. 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.

1. (1,941 KB, 2/10/2026 8:52 AM) Bureau of Standards, Circular 31, Copper Wire Tables includes the information about the following Gauges:
   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. Latimer Clark's Wire Gage
   12. London Gage
   13. Metric Wire Gage
   14. millimeter wire gage
   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. (740 KB, 2/9/2026 4:49 PM) Brown & Sharpe includes the information 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 information 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 information 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) Hypodermic Needle Dimensions includes the information about the following Gauges:
   1. Hypodermic Needle Sizes
   2. Stubs' Iron Wire Gauge

6. (916 KB, 2/10/2026 8:54 AM) Kent's Mechanical Engineers' Handbook includes the information 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. English Standard Wire
   7. French Gauges
   8. Galvanized Iron Wire
   9. Jauge de Limoges
   10. Jauges 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. (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 "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 Wire
   30. Washburn & Moen
   31. Wright Wire Co.

9. (809 KB, 2/10/2026 8:54 AM) Mining Engineers' Handbook includes the information about the following Gauges:
   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. (1,205 KB, 2/10/2026 8:54 AM) Starrett includes the information about the following Gauges:
    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 Gage
    10. New American S & W Co's Music Wire gage
    11. Starrett English Standard Wire Gauge
    12. Stubs' Iron Wire
    13. Stubs' Steel Wire Gage
    14. U. S. Standard gage for Plate Iron and Steel
    15. U. S.Standard Gage foe sheet and Plate Iron and Steel
    16. W. & M. Steel Music Wire gage
    17. Washburn & Moen Worcester 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