Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Georg Friedrich Strass (French: Georges Frédéric Strass; 29 May 1701, Wolfisheim bei Strasbourg - 22 December 1773) was an Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones. He is best known as the inventor of the rhinestone, called strass in many European languages, from a particular type of glass he found in the river Rhine.He used mixtures of bismuth and thallium to improve the refractive quality of his imitations, and altered their colors with metal salts.. }
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- Georg_Friedrich_Strass comment "Georg Friedrich Strass (French: Georges Frédéric Strass; 29 May 1701, Wolfisheim bei Strasbourg - 22 December 1773) was an Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones. He is best known as the inventor of the rhinestone, called strass in many European languages, from a particular type of glass he found in the river Rhine.He used mixtures of bismuth and thallium to improve the refractive quality of his imitations, and altered their colors with metal salts.".