1850s

NOUN
  1. the decade from 1850 to 1859
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  • He it was who, in the 1850s, persuaded his reluctant coachman to make the first gliding flight in history, across the valley at Brompton.
  • After the merciful demise of her husband in 1842 her activities became less camouflaged and in the 1850s she was involving herself in the serf problem.
  • In the late 1850s the speed of technological change quickened.
  • In the 1850s and 1860s Glasgow engine builders set to work to solve the problem of steam at sea, the fact that marine boilers could only produce steam from sea water at low pressures.
  • The 1827 restrikes are well known because of the rarity of issues for the year, and were most likely surreptitiously made in the late 1850s, some with rusted dies and some overstruck on older quarters (a piece struck on an 1806 quarter is known). Capped Bust Quarter, Large Size, 1815-1828 : Coin Guide
  • Cigarettes began being sold in Britain in the 1850s, initially just sold in paper wrappers.
  • However by the start of the 1850s the Government Farm was used extensively by the government of the day to grow fodder, particularly hay, agisting of government horses used by the police in the gold escorts and the Survey Department.
  • The area consists of a flat patchwork of marshes in the Gangetic plain, artificially created in the 1850s and maintained ever since by a system of canals, sluices and dykes. Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India
  • In the 1850s, he developed his scientific method of attribution, a method inspired by the comparative methodologies of the natural sciences.
  • With the growth of the movement came a more radical agenda of teetotalism and a concerted campaign to end the state's liquor licensing system through local option legislation and eventually state prohibition in the 1850s.
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