Louis Liston Tallyn

Louis Liston Tallyn is known from the engineering manual Design of a Steel Railroad Warehouse, a work preserved by Project Gutenberg and other public-domain archives. The book suggests he wrote for readers who needed straightforward guidance on planning and constructing large railroad or industrial warehouse buildings.

Very little widely available biographical information appears to survive about him, which is not unusual for specialized technical authors of his era. Based on the subject of his known work, he seems to have been active in the world of engineering or industrial design, with an emphasis on practical construction methods and railroad-related infrastructure.

Because confirmed personal details are scarce in the sources available here, it is best to remember him through the work itself: a focused, hands-on contribution to the literature of American industrial building and engineering.