Book on history of development of human civilization from the point of view of chemistry.In a book chemical elements are consistently described in the order in that they were open, and what deposit they brought in development of technologies in the moment of their opening.And did you some time begin to think of that, how opening of one or another chemical element influenced on the way of life of man, his technology, on that, how looks changed to the device of the surrounding world? This book is just on it. We will pass from the copper tools of ancient people to the modern nuclear weapon, personally to see that our world changed.