Although newspapers and magazines routinely described him as a 'millionaire', he insisted that he had made very little money from his ingenious invention.

This has enabled them to become increasingly innovative, leading to all the ingenious inventions that have given us our complex modern technologies.

The eyes take in strange sights and bright colours - bizarre costumes, intricate carvings, ingenious inventions.

On the other hand, proponents of simplification often flaunt a few choice simplified characters as ingenious inventions, when in fact these have existed for hundreds of years as ancient variants.