Wavetek Meterman and later simply Meterman manufactured test and measurement tools. The company was purchased by Danaher Corporation, which also owns Fluke and Amprobe. In 2008, Meterman was folded into the Amprobe name.
A five-paragraph essay starts with an introductory paragraph that ends in a topic statement. The next three paragraphs are considered the body of the essay; each one discusses one aspect of the topic statement. The concluding paragraph wraps it all up. An autobiographical essay is simply an autobiography written in the five-paragraph essay form. Writing one is not as daunting a task as it may seem.
Memoir. As a literary genre, the memoir is both very old and very new. In his history of the memoir, Ben Yagoda (Memoir: A History, 2009) notes that in the 19th and early 20th centuries, memoirs were usually about someone else -- for example, someone might write a memoir of his relationship with Charles Dickens.