Just off the top of my head, I can come up with a dozen American accomplishments that would have blown the minds of 747 engineers:

The Internet

Hubble Space Telescope

Google

Deep Blue beating Kasparov

iPhone

Human Genome Project

F-22/B-2/F-35 stealth tech

Falcon Heavy dual booster landings

Waymo

Starship live re-entry video via Starlink

ChatGPT

B-52 still flying