This is an automated archive.

The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/BringBackApollo2023 on 2023-10-18 01:01:26+00:00.

I’m reading Christian Becksvoort’s book “The Shaker Legacy” and next to a picture of a set of metric measuring containers he notes “Because the Shakers lived more or less independently from the outside world, they were able to make at least one advance that remains elusive to the average American: They began to adopt the metric system in 1877.”

Did the actually make the switch from imperial to metric or did they use both?