Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1847. He moved to Canada at age 23 and began teaching deaf children in Boston at age 24. Between ages 25 and 40, he became a professor at 26 and discovered the principle of the telephone at age 28 in 1875. He invented the first telephone in 1876 at age 29. In 1908, his team built an airplane and invented a hydrofoil boat. Bell died in 1922 in Canada at age 75 from diabetes.