From the Wikipedia article: "From 1882 to 1902, except for three years, he contributed regular articles to the trade paper The Electrician, which wished to imp

From the Wikipedia article: "From 1882 to 1902, except for three years, he contributed regular articles to the trade paper The Electrician, which wished to improve its standing, for which he was paid £40 per year. This was hardly enough to live on, but his demands were very small and he was doing what he most wanted to. " The prototypical hacker?