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From Machinery's Handbook. Fifth Edition, 1916 (copyright 1914). New York: The Industrial Press, 1916. Table on page 1112 of "Dimensions of Twist Drill and Grooving Cutters - Wire Gage Sizes." The snipped used in the linking image gives the drill gage number, drill diameter in inches, and total length of the first few wire-gage sized twist drills. Scanned by the author from the original.
This is of course not measurement data, but specification "data." Whether it is in fact data is a matter of interpretation, I suppose. Some things are worth deep thinking, but this probably isn't one of them.
