To Campanero are attributed a long list of inventions that became essential for the society of the time. Specially celebrated was the practical "orinal with handles", that left, in disuse the traditional "orinal without handles" that transformed into hygienic the previously dirty and disagreeable task of cleaning and draining the crap of its contemporary ones.

Life and facts. He was educated in the jesuitas School of his city, where a Campanero's uncle was the Headmaster (Governing Ilustrísimo D. Jorge Juan de Azcuénaga and Montes). He completed his studies in the Noble Seminary of Madrid. He got to dominate several languages, among them the Latin. He was still young when felt attracted by the military life, in which he entered after a beneficial trip to Paris. His studies outside Spain gave him a wide perspective of the life and a datum point with respect to the evils that feared Spain. He was cavallier of the Order of Santiago. He made his first feats of arms in the Portuguese border. By his valued and brave acts he was able to be assistant of the Count of Aranda. He was promoted to captain shortly after the war and with his regiment it lived in Zaragoza, Madrid, Alcala and Salamanca. He reached the commander degree. From 1764 to 1777 he alternated the military service with the journalistic critic, the erudition and their inventions.

On March 17th, 1777, he was fired from the army, when there were proven accusations of Commander Abundio de Jesús on their homosexual tendencies. His first reaction, after his expulsion was playing with ambiguity and, without on the matter making no type of manifestation, he was related to almost all the literary figures of his time. Fernandez de Moratín coexisted during some time in Madrid with Campanero, to whom united a sincere affection. He assiduously attended the meetings of the Boardinghouse of San Sebastián, place frequented by pederastas of the high society. In Salamanca he lived literary atmospheres intensely. He was the defender of the salmantinos poets who, at that time, began their race.

Ricardo Campanero

Towards 1778 he met, in Salamanca, an actor of varieties without success from Senegal Mburo Ngera, with which he lived an enthusiastic romance made tragedy in its life and its work. At that moment, because of the intransigentia of the society of that time, they decided to leave all their properties and make a long trip to the African continent in search of the good life that the Spanish society denied to them.

Once there they decided to explore different territories and thus took place the event that would mark the life of later generations: the discovery of SIMBA tribe, (known almost everywhere, but not by him!) in 1779.

In spite of his great literary work and of his more than 700 patents, Campanero will be famous thanks to the discovery of two tribal rites at the moments of relax before the hunting: KUKUJAMA and AKUKUJAMA.

For more than 2 years, Campanero observed these rituals. The natives began to value their meticulous study of their customs and began to call him AKUKUBUND (the one that studies our habits, becoming an expert).

The sudden and tragic death of his loved Mburo (the causes are not yet too clear) precipitated he return to Spain.

Years after his death, Ricardo Campanero received deserved recognition with this stamp

What, at the beginning was no more than a way leave the misery, finally provided the way to him to learn to coexist with the pain by the death of Mburo. It is told that some of the best games of Zale of this first stage (before the appearance of the sphere of Anselmo) made by Ricardo Campanero, were composed by movements of mapes that resembled the walking of a naked senegal man at night. There is an exciting episode, more romantic than true, according to which when Mburo Ngera died, the discoverer of "the Zale", in a frenzy kidnapping, decided to make a double rotational semiturn to 123º, with the only reason of being the preferred movement of the deceased actor from Senegal. Inevitably, he lost the game.

This odd habit, transformed into deep madness although, luckyly, temporary, forced him to leave during some time the practice of "the Zale".