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The Pragmatist at Work

By Carol Cruzan Morton

MIT grad student Jessica Vechakul and Amy Smith learn how to extract peanut oil the traditional way in August 2005. "I have long wanted to make a treadle-powered oil press and so was eager to learn everything I could about peanut-oil production," says Smith. Later, her D-Lab class designed a press, and two students built a prototype.