Imperial Wire Gauge & British Standard Gauge
- Imperial Wire Gauge & British Standard Gauge
British Standard, or Imperial wire gauge, fixed by order of council August 23 1883. It was constructed by improving the Birmingham Wire Gauge. Made legal standard March 1 1884.
On September 20 1994, Rowland Carson posted a list of the 39 most used gauge systems in use worldwide:
Of these Birmingham still features with the following:
* Birmingham Gauge BG ~ iron hoop & strip, steel sheet
* Birmingham Wire Gauge BWG ~ iron & steel telephone wire
* Birmingham Wire Gauge for Silver & Gold ~ silver & gold
* Stubs Iron Wire Gauge ~ iron wire
* Stubs Steel Wire Gauge ~ steel drill rod
ee also
Needle Wire gauge
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