Edison was a tireless worker and he was known, even in his own time, in working through the night and sleeping only in short naps.
Edison was a tireless worker and he was known, even in his own time, to work through the night and sleep only in short naps.
Edison was a tireless worker and he was known, even in his own time, in working through the night and sleeping only in short naps.
Edison was a tireless worker and he was known, even in his own time, to work through the night and sleep only in short naps.
If person A is famous because A does X, then the natural idiom is "A is known to do X." The action is most naturally expressed as an infinitive. The structure "in [gerund]" is not correct with the verb "known."