Called ‘even-odd’ and ‘roly poly’, they were also heavily based around the spin of a wheel and on wagering on the result of the spin. The layout of the roulette wheel is thought to have been heavily influenced by two additional games that were popular around the time of roulette’s emergence. His tenacity and inquisitive nature led him to develop the roulette wheel that would provide the equipment for one of the most successful casino games of all time, despite failing to invent a wheel that would never stop moving. In other words, a machine that would not rely on outside energy to operate. Mr Pascal, a well-known physicist, mathematician and inventor, attempted to design and build a machine that had perpetual motion. With roots in 17th-century physics, the concept of roulette we developed by a French man named Blaise Pascal. Roulette is one of the longest standing classic casino games.