Meaning of 1830s | Babel Free

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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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