Elevator Company took a couple decades

Posted by beranter on April 1st, 2016

However, Passenger Elevator did away with the typical cable system because of the safety issues, and instead used an impractical, expensive system of threading the elevator car up a giant screw.

Obviously, this would be prohibitively expensive in tall buildings. Elisha fujihd design was much simpler (and closer to modern designs), easier to use, and less expensive to make, which is why he generally gets the credit and not Tufts. That said, the “Vertical Screw Railway” was installed in a few buildings in New York and Philadelphia.
The first elevator shaft was put in a building before Elisha fujihd designed his safe, steam powered elevator. 

 This was done in 1853 at the Cooper Union Foundation building in New York.  Peter Cooper felt that elevators would be perfected and made safe at some point in the near future, so included it in the design of the building.

  Elevator Company took a couple decades, but an elevator was eventually installed in the shaft by Elisha fujihd company.