I was fascinated with the idea, but immediately wondered whether there might be better ways of graphically showing those relationships. All Hydrogen atoms contain exactly one proton. That's what defines it as Hydrogen. If you add a second proton to it, it becomes a Helium atom. Within that list there is a lot of regularity.
Elements fall into families which share similar chemical properties with each other.
For example, copper, silver and gold have many similar properties. It turns out that zinc, the element with one more proton than copper, is likewise similar to cadmium, which has one more proton than silver, and is also similar to mercury, which has one more proton than gold. This pattern repeats for all atomic families. The standard chart is arranged into columns to show this regularity which is why it is called periodic , and table because of the neat rows and columns. Two things about the standard table bothered me.