Throwback to 2020 - Largest aerial firework shell 🎇 1,268 kg (2,797 lbs) by James Cowden Widmann, Eric Krug, Ed MacArthur, and Tim Borden 🇺🇸 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA. The final shell measured 1.44 m (4 ft 8.75 in) in diameter, made of over 82.07 km (51 mi) of 5.71 cm (2.25 in) gummed paper tape, wrapped in even layers by a machine built especially for this purpose. The completed shell was at least 17.78 cm (7 in) thick, and was filled with 380 individual comet fireworks. A giant mo

In celebration of the Fourth of July, watch America's largest firework go off! This 1,175-pound beast was the largest firework ever detonated in North America and may be the heaviest ever set off in the world. The 48-inch shell was launched with 58 pounds of high explosives from a mortar buried 20 feet deep into a mountainside in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. | KENS 5 & Kens5.com

A 1,175-pound firework in Steamboat Springs, Colo., is the largest ever detonated in North America. Move the video to watch it explode in 360 degrees. | USA TODAY