APIs often come in the form of a library that includes specifications for routines, data structures, object classes, and variables. In other cases, notably SOAP and REST services, an API is simply a specification of remote calls exposed to the API consumers.
The inventor of the photographic process in which a photograph produced without a negative by exposing objects to light on light sensitive paper, is named Man Ray.
the first photograph was taken by Joseph NicÃ©phore NiÃ©pce in 1826 but he did not invent photography, he did however produce the very first permanent image through the use of a pewter plate covered in bitumen and a simple camera-obscura (pin hole camera) Men had been experimenting with creating images for years before.