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An image of an English wooden common press found in Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-Works: began January 1, 1677.

Diagram of the Uncommon Press with parts labeled.

Jenna Doran, a fourth-year microelectric engineering student from Olympia, WA., holds a print of the First Amendment, made on an 18th-century-style wooden printing press created by an interdisciplinary group of students in 2016.

Video of the Uncommon Press in action, with narration explaining how it works.

Team member Ferris Nicolais, with the finished mahogany platen.

The mahogany platen has hung from the hose with a series of 4 knots, tied with string.

The Uncommon Press team worked in the engineering machine shop to fit, assemble, and oil components of the press, before the final assembly in the Wallace Library. Here the tympan is being attached to the coffin.

Image of parts created by the blacksmith Matt Schofield for the Uncommon Press.

Matt Schofield, lead blacksmith at Genesee Country Village and Museum in Mumford, NY, creates the wrought-iron hose band.

A glimpse into one of the buildings full of wood at Irion Lumber, in Wellsboro, PA. One of the boards in this view eventually became the press's platen.