Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Hypocycloid" in English language version.
Early experience demonstrated that the hypocycloidal mechanism was structurally unsuited to transmitting the large forces developed by the piston of a steam engine. But the mechanism had shown its ability to convert linear motion to rotary motion and so found alternative low-load applications such as the drive for printing machines and sewing machines.
G. Cardano was the first to describe applications of hypocycloids in the technology of high-speed printing press (1570).
