The game of roulette as we know it today started being played a century later, around 1760, in France.įor the untrained eye, there is no difference between the different types of roulette wheels, but at a closer look, the differences become self-evident. The roulette cylinder was introduced in a primitive form, in the 17th century, by Blaise Pascal, a French physicist, philosopher and inventor, in his quest to create for a perpetual motion machine.
