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.
In many respects, cameras were developed, rather than having been invented by just one person. In 1685, Johann Zahn described, but could not build, a magic lantern device that would capture images. Nicephore Niepce used bitumen to create the first actual photograph in 1825.