Innovation is the engine that drives the economy. People who invent new and desirable products create value, growth and wealth. So it?s appropriate that Ford Motor Company and one of the most desirable cars in automotive history, Mustang, were honored yesterday at the National Inventors Hall of Fame inside the US Patent and Trademark Office […]The post Split Personality Mustang Highlights Ford?s History of Innovation appeared first on Pursuitist.

Innovation is the engine that drives the economy. People who invent new and desirable products create value, growth and wealth. So it?s appropriate that Ford Motor Company and one of the most desirable cars in automotive history, Mustang, were honored yesterday at the National Inventors Hall of Fame inside the US Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia.To showcase its history, Ford created a special display for the Intellectual Property Power exhibit that fuses the front of a 1965 Mustang to a 2015 Mustang. This hybrid Mustang, along with other displays in the exhibit celebrate the history of intellectual property and illuminate its role in American progress and culture. The Mustang display recreates the interior of both cars exactly and is designed to highlight the role patents play in technology and product improvements over the decades. It calls out various patents in the current vehicle, as well as those in the Mustang.Interestingly, when the first Mustang was created, the project was so intense that Ford didn?...