In June 1886 Bismarck was still German Chancellor and Daimler and Benz were fiddling around with their first attempts at motorized engines. That same year a bottle was thrown into the ocean and remained lost - until now.
UPDATE: A fisherman who found the world's oldest message in a bottle tossed into the sea in northern Germany has failed in his attempt to sell it on eBay. The auction was stopped at the last minute.
An invention being trialed in the Bavarian town of Bamberg is making life easier for the poorest citizens. The contraption on public bins holds used bottles ready for collectors in need of the recycling deposit.
