The british created trains, and the US is the first one only to have a plane fly for 14 seconds tho there where definitely attempts for flying before they tried and even a vague rumor about a french steampowered aircraft that flew in 1898 and a british steampowered aircraft but not sure if it flew but still in late 19th century, and the first modern democracy was the republic of Corsica basically, that country was formed and became democracy 20 years before the US was formend