Engineers refurbishing a historic lighthouse in Scotland were blown away after discovering a 132-year-old message in a bottle that had ... a missive penned in quill ink in 1892 by the engineers ...

Later ones were made of glass in a variety of shapes. Quill pens were eventually replaced ... with a hole in the top for the necessary bottle of ink. Beside it was a deep groove to hold the ...

Written using quill and ink, the letter dated ... would have once contained oil. The bottle stopper was cork, which had expanded over time and stuck to the glass, while the wire which held it ...