Meaning of 1830s | Babel Free

Definitions

The decade from 1830 to 1839.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“During the 1830s and 1840s, ready-made standardized shoes and clothing increasingly challenged the custom-made products of small handicraft workshops.”

“He made his fortune during the presteel era of Pittsburgh's development — the period before Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — beginning in the 1820s and 1830s with a start⟳ in pharmaceuticals and white lead⟳.”

“A modern glass edifice nearby houses the headquarters of the illustrious Rothschild banking family. It was the Rothschilds who in the 1830s arranged that recently paid-off £20 million loan to the British government to reimburse slaveowners after the trade⟳ ended – said to be equivalent to some £300 billion in today’s money.”

“Private companies have⟳, traditionally, dominated Britain's railway history. The first railways were built by private individuals and groups, and by the late 1830s building a railway was considered the ideal 'get⟳ rich quick' scheme.”

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