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.
With the new Collodion process, cameras only needed a few seconds of light exposure to make a picture. The camera obscura is developed 1814, Joseph Niepce developed the camera obscura and took the first photo with it. It wasn't ideal, though, because it took 8 hours of light exposure to make a picture, and the picture faded with time. The Daguerreotype was invented 1837 Louis Daguerre invented a new way to take pictures. It only needed 30 minutes of light exposure, and the image didn't fade with time The invention of the roll-film camera 1888,