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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.

An image of a Wells style Acorn press.

An image of a Tufts style Acorn press.

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

Field trip to document and measure the Louis C. Roy Press at the Mackenzie Printery and Newspaper Museum in Queenston, ON, Canada.

The team traveled to purchase white oak from New England Naval Timbers, in Cornwall, CT.

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.

Team member Ferris Nicolais, with the finished mahogany platen.

An image of an Adams style Acorn press.

An image of a Stansbury style Acorn press, manufactured by R. Hoe & Co.