Explore this inspirational and visual representation of how invention has progressed in our country, from the late 1700s when the patent system was first started, to today. Discover how society has gone through different eras, and in recent decades, how technology has evolved at an even faster pace.

Ford Mustang lovers: Did you know that at the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in Alexandria, Virginia, you can sit in the driver’s seat of a custom-built 1965 Ford Mustang merged with a 2015 model?

Plan your visit today to get a first-hand view into how far automotive design and technology have come in the past five decades — and what the next half-century could bring for the automobile!

This Ford exhibit, part of the museum’s Intellectual Property Power™ wing, will only be available to visit through June 30, 2018.