This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of professional equipment and supplies (except ophthalmic goods and medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies). Illustrative Examples: Church supplies (except silverware, plated ware) merchant wholesalers School equipment and supplies (except books, furniture) merchant wholesalers Drafting tables and instruments merchant wholesalers Scientific instruments merchant wholesalers Laboratory equipment (except medical, dental) merchant wholesalers Surveying equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers Establishments primarily engaged in--

Including:

• Analytical instruments (e.g., chromatographic, photometers, spectrographs) merchant wholesalers
• Architects' equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Balances and scales, laboratory (except dental, medical), merchant wholesalers
• Barometers merchant wholesalers
• Blackboards merchant wholesalers
• Chemical and technical pottery products merchant wholesalers
• Church supplies (except plated ware, silverware) merchant wholesalers
• Drafting instruments merchant wholesalers
• Drafting tables merchant wholesalers
• Engineers' equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Instruments, professional and scientific, merchant wholesalers
• Laboratory equipment (except dental, medical, ophthalmic) merchant wholesalers
• Professional equipment and supplies (except dental, medical, ophthalmic) merchant wholesalers
• Professional furniture (except dental, metal, ophthalmic, and school) merchant wholesalers
• Professional instruments merchant wholesalers
• Religious supplies merchant wholesalers
• Scales, laboratory (except dental and medical), merchant wholesalers
• School equipment and supplies (except books, furniture) merchant wholesalers
• Scientific instruments merchant wholesalers
• Scientific laboratory equipment merchant wholesalers
• Smartboards merchant wholesalers
• Statuary, religious, merchant wholesalers
• Surveying equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Teaching machines (except computers), electronic, merchant wholesalers
• Vestments, religious, merchant wholesalers
• Veterinarians' equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Wall maps merchant wholesalers